“It’s fantastic. It’s been really satisfying to ride a winner today after all the hard work to get back, and it’s nice to reward the people who put me on.

“Everyone has been helping to get me back. There’s been a bit of expectation, so it’s nice to ride a winner.”

Today was Lindop’s first day of competitive racing since breaking 15 ribs and a collarbone in a race fall on Adelaide Cup day, in March.

In her first race, the second on the Morphettville card, Lindop finished sixth. She ran second in her second race before storming home on Visual Impact to emphatically end her longest stint without riding a horse since she was 10.

“It’s funny, I feel like it’s back to business as normal, which is how it should’ve been, so that’s nice,” she said.

“A lot of us are on the sidelines for a certain amount of time. Paul Gatt is still on the sidelines with a broken leg, Matthew Nielson broke his leg last week.

“So it’s part of the job, so to come back and ride a winner it’s really good because everyone sits back and watches you when you return. So it’s nice to go, ‘Yeah, I’m back’.”

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